RE[2]: Let it go.....
I don't see his comment like that, don't really feel your question (as stated) is warranted, Thom - jabjoe was one of the relatively few RISC PC home users, and clearly quite into it; he stayed that...
View ArticleRE[5]: priorities
When idealized (and towards what present hardware architectures - maybe also R-Pi - converge to, internally), sure. But, you know, not only 2D / video is something traditionally, for a long time, done...
View ArticleRE: RISC OS is a mixed bag but a good fit
Heh, it doesn't even compare well under the hood to Win9x, much less anything NT family. (It's still a quite interesting one to play with, which is why I managed to track down a RiscPC here in the US a...
View ArticleRE[3]: Price
Of course, for a long time, there were three kinds of RISC OS machine: Old RiscPCs with somewhat faster CPU cards (or just the original CPU cards - those are the elderly that keep the commercial RISC...
View ArticleRE[3]: Linux, really?
Gimp, Inkscape, LibreOffice, Apt, Hugin, Handbreak, VLC, XBMC, I could keep going. As a RiscOS fan, you must know of Artworks (which kind of carried on from !Draw), which became Xara Xtreme on PC,...
View ArticleRE[2]: Comment by AnythingButVista
Python really isn't much more complicated than BASIC, and >much
View ArticleRE[6]: priorities
Wait, seriously, a horse analogy, while cars would be perfectly fine? (seeing how Clarkson semi-constantly highlights this difference between American and European cars) PS. I guess it ultimately boils...
View ArticleRE[5]: priorities
First you would need to ask the framebuffer or VESA(or whatever driver they use) developers, not the LXDE devs. Second RiscOS is handtuned assembly and it sure it does a few things faster than...
View ArticleAROS
I think this is great. I look forward to checking our the OS, which I really know nothing about. It would also be very cool to get AROS running on this machine.
View ArticleRE[2]: Let it go.....
True enough but I'm not so sure that RiscOS is going to succeed at getting the attention of todays kids.
View ArticleRE[6]: Comment by AnythingButVista
I'm interested in new OSs. OS developments and yes, random OSs like good old RiscOS. But I don't want Raspberry Pi guys spenting one minute on RiscOS because it should be about teaching and empowering...
View ArticleRE[4]: Let it go.....
Yer, the load/save was the best in any OS. I've felt for some time the desktop should do load/save dialogs and processes communicate with the desktop via pipes/socket. That way you can have Explorer...
View ArticleRE[4]: Let it go.....
Agreed. ROX doesn't provide anything close to the full RISC OS experience. Just like adding a dock and theme to Windows and Linux can't turn them into Mac OS X.
View ArticleRE[2]: Price
Perhaps, though RISC OS camp does seem to jump relatively quickly on inexpensive almost-retail hardware; they saw their chance in targeting such machine. The Amiga camp did it way late (excluding AROS,...
View ArticleRE[2]: Linux, really?
I have several systems, mainly Alphaservers/Alphastations running Linux and the amount of useful software is really low. Besides of Blender and Firefox there are not that many. Most are either half...
View ArticleRE[3]: Ya
Ahh, but why did you allow this authority to the machine in the first place?! Of course, because you (we) suck at it, because that particular machine has much better "timekeeping intelligence" And...
View ArticleRE[3]: Ya
Taste is certainly a part of it, but I also think it's a bad design - when the action is interrupted, not only you have to start it from the beginning, it can often bring unpredictable results (when...
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